OSOGBO—THE Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Osun State, yesterday, said that the alleged threat by former chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Iyiola Omisore, to “attack, stop and disarm” Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s convoy was desperation gone berserk. It advised Omisore not to toy with the explosive idea. ACN, in a statement, cautioned the former deputy governor of the state against the idea, contending that it had the irreversible potential to blow up on Omisore’s face and cause national mayhem.

The party called on President Goodluck Jonathan and other national officers of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to call Omisore to order in the interest of national peace and coherence. Reacting to report quoting Omisore as saying he would attack “Aregbesola’s convoy if he continues with the use of Tawun,” ACN’s Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, in the state, Kunle Oyatomi, a lawyer, said: “Such act would be treated as an assassination attempt by a criminal miscreant and will be decisively terminated by security forces.”

ACN said: “We call on all lovers of peace in the country to advise Omisore and his cohorts against this act of desperation, first in his own interest and in the interest of peace and survival of democracy in the country. ”If PDP in the South-West even has a private army, it will be suicidal to use that illegal army against the chief security officer and chief executive of a state, which is a federating unit in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. ”When did it become the responsibility of Senator Omisore to determine who constitutes the security convoy of the governor? Is he now the National Security Adviser? Or has he been replaced with the Inspector-General of Police or the Director of State Security Service.”

“In a civilised clime, Omisore should have been placed under security surveillance and prosecuted for plotting criminal assault against a sitting governor of a state. That is what we call on the state security services to do immediately; otherwise they will stand accused of complicity in Omisore’s criminal attempt. The President should be aware that chieftains of his party are plotting anarchy in the South-West.” The statement recalled that the National Vice- Chairman (South-West) of PDP, Segun Oni, had last month declared that PDP would make Osun State ungovernable for Aregbesola and ACN, a declaration which he said was followed by a “dubious security report which accused the governor of plotting secession against the Nigerian state. Now, Omisore is threatening physical assault on Aregbesola.”

“These are not just mere coincidences. They have the hallmarks of strategic planning of criminal nature. President Jonathan, who is a national leader of PDP, has a responsibility to protect the citizens of this country against criminals, assassins and political thugs who are driven by desperation to create mayhem like the one being plotted against Aregbesola by PDP and its chieftains in the South-West.”

ACN’s Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, in the state, Kunle Oyatomi, a lawyer, said: “Such act would be treated as an assassination attempt by a criminal miscreant and will be decisively terminated by security forces.”

Why in the first place would a sincere govt., allow an "an anthonio bandarass" assassin to be on the prowl this thing "omosore" knew and knows, about the death of Bola ige he lacks manners, can't they just dip into all the laws in this country and lock the thing up "omosore" better still we need an elite"st" assassination squad to wipe out the likes of this thing

olajide_07: Why in the first place would a sincere govt., allow an "an anthonio bandarass" assassin to be on the prowl this thing "omosore" knew and knows, about the death of Bola ige he lacks manners, can't they just dip into all the laws in this country and lock the thing up "omosore" better still we need an elite"st" assassination squad to wipe out the likes of this thing

Iyiola Omisore came into political limelight in 1998 when he ran as running mate to Chief Bisi Akande. Shortly after he became Deputy Governor, he started plotting tosucceed his boss. Omisore became notorious; he turned himself to a demi-god in Osun almost establishing a parallel government. Little was known about this Ife- born politician until 1998.

He was said to have been living abroad after an unsuccessful education attempt at the Owo Polytechnic. He had been a contractor in Osun state during the previous military regime and failed to execute the contract awarded to him after he had been fully paid. Iyiola became arrogant and almost shut down the government in Osun State. He had some members of the House of Assembly in his pocket. At the peak of the crisis in Osun, apparently backed (indirectly) by the Ooni of Ife.

Omisore orchestrated the humiliation of Chief Bola Ige at the palace of Ooni, whenBola Ige’s cap was removed. Chief Bola Ige is a title holder in Ife and by tradition, we are raised respect our elders. Omisore, then enjoying the support of Olusegun Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar, disrespected Ige and even threatened to kill him. week after Ige was disgraced at the Ooni Palace; Chief Bola Ige was killed at his house in Ibadan.

Actually Omisore should be arrested for such statements, ask Bola Ige's family, or better still ask Hon Rotimi Makinde they are in better position to tell you more about him, and reading through that piece, this people looks afraid oooo, they keep repeating "call him to order" what happened to them in Akure is still fresh in there memory.

salaksmana: Actually Omisore should be arrested for such statements, ask Bola Ige's family, or better still ask Hon Rotimi Makinde they are in better position to tell you more about him, and reading through that piece, this people looks afraid oooo, they keep repeating "call him to order" what happened to them in Akure is still fresh in there memory.

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has threatened to stop and search the convoy of Governor Rauf Aregbesola.The former lawmaker alleged that the governor was not using men of the State Security Service (SSS) for his security personnel. He addressed reporters in his Ile-Ife home at the weekend.Omisore said: “We will stop his convoy, search and remove all the arms his thugs are using. “It is unethical to use thugs as security. Aregbesola should explain why he goes about with thugs. During the last elections, he rigged with the aids of thugs, but this time round, we are ready for him.“Who wants to kill him? (Asiwaju Bola) Tinubu is more important than he is. He is a common radio technician. If Aregbesola does not trust the SSS, let him resign. We are going to stop his convoy and search him.“His action is an embarrassment. He is just one of the 36 governors; how can his case be different? Tinubu was governor for eight years, he did not use thugs as security.“Together with Aregbesola we were in the Alliance for Democracy (AD). We know ourselves very well. Aregbesola was just one of the thugs shouting outside when we held crucial meetings. If not for Justice Ayo Salami, whose judgment favoured Aregbesola and he is now paying for it by being at home wasting away, who knew Aregbesola?”The former senator said it was not an allegation that Aregbesola was training and using members of the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme (OYES) to commit alleged electoral fraud.He vowed “to crush any OYES member found in any voting centre in the next elections”.According to him, the politics promoted by the PDP in the Southwest from 2003 to 2011 brought succour to the zone and would advance the Yoruba interest faster than the regional integration of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).But the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Sunday Akere, asked in what capacity Omisore would act, if he plans to stop and search the governor’s convoy.Describing Omisore’s outburst as a direct confrontation, Akere said: “We shall see how he will do that and get away with it.”The commissioner, who said no harm must come to the governor, noted that the former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, was murdered despite the security provided for him by the government.He said: “If Omisore should be bold to say he would search the governor’s convoy, the whole world should note it. And we are demanding that no harm should happen to the governor. We don’t want to take him for granted.”Akere said the PDP was a bad loser for referring to OYES instead of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the superintendent of elections.He added that the PDP had performed abysmally.

it surprises me that so many of us play ignorant to the antiques of someone like the thing "omisore" people know him we from the south west know him the man was a paid assassin when he was aboard and he has his boys "don't ask me to prove it" because i cant basically if he cant get the job done himself he gets his boys to do the job and takes them out personally so please the fear of the thing "omisore " is the beginning of knowledge if he doesn't like "GEJ" he will take him out he is that bad